
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 1, 1995                   TAG: 9503140084
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

PATTON MOVES INTO GERMANY; SIEGFRIED LINE THREATENED

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army crossed the Our River onto German soil in two places. Meanwhile the U. S. First Army captured four towns in a four-mile advance, carrying them to within two miles of the German border and putting the Siegfried line forts within range of Allied artillery. Allied planes wrecked more than half of the 2,000 enemy vehicles fleeing the American assault during a fierce eight-hour night battle.

The Soviet Red Army surged to within 59 miles of Berlin with the capture of Duhringshof, one of the last strongholds barring the road to the Axis capital. The German military radio issued an order for a death stand around Berlin as there was now "no way back." Radio reports gave a grim picture regarding the fate of Berlin and urged German soldiers not to place their lives above the life of Germany. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels amnounced to the country that they were now poised "just before zero hour."

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